In October, Yiwu will invite global buyers to witness Made-in-China opportunities 

YIWU, China-Wednesday, August 30th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With just a few decades, Yiwu has grown from a nameless Eastern China county to a rich e-commerce city that is dubbed as the world capital of small commodities. With solid infrastructure investment and advanced business operation, Yiwu is becoming a warehouse for world small commodities consumers.

Cargo trains along the New Silk Road

Since November 2014, China has launched 9 railway routes, one after another, connecting Yiwu and those cities along the New Silk Road, including Madrid, Tehran, Chelyabinsk, Mazar-e Sharif, Riga, Minsk, London and Prague. As a result, Yiwu’s export to the Belt and Road countries last year increased by 4.86% to 17.95 billion dollars, accounting for 51.78% of the city’s total export.

The warehouse for “One Belt, One Road” countr ... Read more »

TOKYO & WESTMINSTER, Colo.-Thursday, August 31st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT DATA Corporation (TOKYO:9613), a global IT services provider, and DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE:DGI), the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet, today announced an agreement to extend their strategic partnership to produce large-scale 3D vector building model datasets, called AW3D Metro. This will combine NTT DATA’s elevation expertise with DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution imagery and platform capabilities to one of the highest resolution 3D datasets that offers significant coverage and rapid delivery timelines.

NTT DATA, as one of the leading providers in global elevation data with its AW3D® series, will create off-the-shelf 3D vector building, vegetation and bridge models using DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX) and imagery. GBDX, a powerful, cloud-based tool with access to DigitalGlobe’s 100 petabyte ... Read more »

 AHF Condom Bank, an innovative global project to provide free condoms to countries and local health ministries in need and seeking to step up their HIV and STD prevention efforts, supplied the Sierra Leone National HIV/AIDS Secretariat and AHF Sierra Leone with five million free condoms for the country’s public/private partnership in the fight against HIV/AIDS. 

LAKKA, Sierra Leone -Sunday, September 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- During an official ceremony Thursday at the beach town resort of Lakka, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) handed over five million free LOVE Condoms to the Sierra Leone National HIV/AIDS Secretariat (NAS) as part of AHF’s innovative Global Condom Bank initiative.

The purpose of the AHF Global Condom Bank is to support and promote HIV prevention by donating AHF branded condoms to government and international agencies that have been unable to procure condoms or are experiencing emergency stock-outs.

Executives from Ericsson, Essential, Ford Motor Company, Mozilla Foundation, Qualcomm Technologies and San Francisco 49ers Confirmed as Speakers; PayPal, Sprint Sponsoring San Francisco Event

ATLANTA-Thursday, August 31st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GSMA released new details for the quickly approaching inaugural Mobile World Congress Americas, including recently confirmed speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and partners. Mobile World Congress Americas will take place September 12-14, 2017 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“In just two weeks, San Francisco will host the most comprehensive mobile technology event the Americas region has ever seen,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. “Mobile World Congress Americas will illustrate how mobile technology impacts the everyday lives of more than five billion people worldwide, transforming industries and contributing to the global economy. Moreove ... Read more »

Computing gets more personal with smartphones, laptops, smart assistants and reality-defying headsets

● Experience augmented and virtual reality like never before with Star Wars content from Disney and gaming from Microsoft on the Lenovo Mirage™ AR and Lenovo Explorer headsets

● Meet the new moto x4 and experience Amazon Alexa without even having to unlock it first

● Combine the portability and convenience of a tablet PC with the benefits of a personal assistant in one useful device, the Tab 4 Home Assistant

● Watch the laptop transform with Yoga™ 920’s intelligent technologies, including active pen support, Cortana® voice recognition enhanced with far field mics and biometric authentication

BERLIN-Friday, September 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lenovo announced five new smart devices that unlock the power and potential of intelligent technology today – using artificial inte ... Read more »

 NMC Health the First Middle East Company to be Listed on the FTSE 100 

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates-Sunday, September 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

NMC Health, the largest private healthcare provider in the United Arab Emirates, has just been promoted to the UK's leading FTSE 100 index.

The company has emerged as the first Middle Eastern company to be listed on such index, which lists the top 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation, indicating strong results and a solid performance as backed by the confidence of investors.

NMC Health was promoted to the FTSE 100 yesterday while during the last quarter its shares have risen 22% from 2,187p to yesterday's close of 2,670p, giving it a market cap of £5.5bn (26 billion UAE Dirham)

Commenting on the development, HE Saeed M Bin Butti Al Qubaisi, the largest shareholder in NMC Health, said: “Being among the FTSE 100 index sol ... Read more »

 - Empathetic, interactive robots attend with their creator, Dr David Hanson, Ph.D -

LONDON-Saturday, September 2nd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IBC2017 is honoured to welcome two very special guests in the form of Sophia and Professor Einstein™, the expressive, intelligent and uncannily humanlike robots designed and created by Dr David Hanson, Ph.D, Founder and CEO of Hanson Robotics. Together with Dr Hanson, they will appear in the Tech Talks Keynote: The Future with Robots that Are Like Us on Sunday 17 September, as part of a day-long strand of discussions that will examine accelerating trends and technologies of the future.

Dr. David Hanson has built a worldwide reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike, empathetic robots, endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity. He has produced many renowned, one-of-a-kind robot characters that have received massive media and public acclaim.

Sophia i ... Read more »

New Features and Enhancements Streamline Motion Graphics, VFX and VR Content Creation Workflows; First Peeks at Next-Gen Development. MAXON to Showcase Powerful new Features at the IBC 2017 in Amsterdam.

 FRIEDRICHSDORF, Germany-Friday, September 1st 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MAXON announces immediate availability of Cinema 4D Release 19 (R19). This next generation of MAXON’s professional 3D application delivers both great tools and enhancements artists can put to use immediately, and provides a peek into the foundations for the future. Designed to serve individual artists as well as large studio environments, Release 19 offers a fast, easy, stable and streamlined workflow to meet today’s challenges in the content creation markets; especially general design, motion graphics, VFX, VR/AR and all types of visualization.
Cinema 4D R19 Feature Highlights Include:
Viewport Improvements – Results so close to final render that cli ... Read more »

CEO Richard Yu Unveils the Kirin 970, Huawei’s first mobile AI computing platform BERLIN-Sunday, September 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today at IFA 2017, Huawei Consumer Business Group unveiled a new era in smartphone innovation. As part of CEO Richard Yu’s keynote address, he revealed Huawei’s vision for the future of artificial intelligence with the launch of the Kirin 970. By combining the power of the cloud with the speed and responsiveness of native AI processing, Huawei is bringing AI experiences to life and changing the way we interact with our devices. “As we look to the future of smartphones, we’re at the threshold of an exciting new era,” said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group. “Mobile AI = On-Device AI + Cloud AI. Huawei is committed to developing smart devices into intelligent devices by building end-to-end capabilities that support coordinated development of chips, devices, and the cloud. The ultima ... Read more »

Global Two-Way Radio Communications Provider Hytera Sues Motorola Solutions for Patent Infringement

SHENZHEN, China-Tuesday, August 29th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Shenzhen, China-based Hytera Communications Corporation Limited, the world's leading provider of innovative professional mobile radio (PMR) solutions, today filed a lawsuit against Chicago, Ill.-based Motorola Solutions, Inc. in federal district court in Cleveland, Ohio, charging that Motorola Solutions is infringing Hytera's U.S. Patent No. 9,183,846, which covers its industry-leading sound adjustment control technology.

Hytera's '846 patent is its inventive method for adjusting sound volume in response to background or ambient noise, allowing a radio operator to hear and speak over it. The device obtains the current level of ambient noise, receives an instruction, and adjusts sound output. If ambient noise is high, the volume adjustment is greater at high ... Read more »

 Upcoming device embodies TP-Link Neffos' dedication to offering stylish, reliable phones with attractive pricing 

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Sunday, September 3rd 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

Neffos will debut the N1 at the IFA consumer trade show in Berlin, Germany, in September. It will be its second time to join the exhibit.

As Neffos — a premium brand created by TP-Link to provide customers worldwide with a truly seamless mobile experience — attempts to continue its success both critically and commercially, it promises to deliver devices that offer exceptional style and dependable build quality and performance. This is in view of TP-Link's history in making reliable products, which helped cement its status as the world's No.1 WLAN provider.

Neffos unveiled the X1 series of smartphone models last year, to positive reviews from the tech community. The X1 Lite, in particular, which will also be on display during the show, ... Read more »